The Department of Economics was started in 1957 with Sri Sam Kurien as the first Head of the Department. During the last 58 years, the department has shown growth and progress in academic, co-curricular and community programs and activities. The programme offered in our Department is BA Economics under the Choice Based Credit and Semester System. There are two batches of students with a total strength of 420. The Department is active in organizing seminars and recently conducted two National seminars, sponsored by UGC.